Bosnian Serbs Refuse Un Convoy

March 15, 1994

Bosnian Serb authorities refused Tuesday to grant permission for a relief convoy to enter the besieged Muslim enclave of Maglaj, United Nations officials said. The convoy planned to leave from Zenica in central Bosnia Wednesday morning for the short drive north into the city of Maglaj, where 16,000 residents have been under siege by Serb and Croat forces since the middle of 1993. More than 100,000 people, most of them Muslims, are trapped in the Maglaj area, which has relied for months on airdrops of food. The last UN convoy to reach the enclave did so on Oct. 25.